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4 years ago

(Feb 23, 2021 04:28)

TIL dry counties (counties where the sale of alcohol is banned) have a drunk driving fatality rate about 3.6 times higher than wet counties.

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4 years ago

(Feb 23, 2021 11:59)

While hiking an isolated jungle trail in the Amazon, we came across this post marking the equator.

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4 years ago

(Feb 23, 2021 04:53)

TIL Lithuania withdrew from the 1992 Olympics due to the lack of money after the fall of the USSR. The Grateful Dead agreed to fund transportation costs for the basketball team along with Grateful Dead designs for the team's jerseys and shorts. They went on to win the Bronze.

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4 years ago

(Feb 23, 2021 03:33)

For instance, a mother tree, or oldest and strongest tree in the forest, will share some of her sugars with smaller, nearby trees.

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4 years ago

(Feb 23, 2021 08:59)

TIL that British MI6 successfully hacked an al-Qaeda newsletter, and replaced bomb-making instructions with a recipe for cupcakes

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4 years ago

(Feb 23, 2021 08:35)

14 years ago I got shot in my ankle. Today I pulled some pieces out with Tweezers.

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4 years ago

(Feb 23, 2021 01:08)

TIL that when euro bank notes were issued in 2002, they featured fictional bridges, so as not to cause a row amongst EU member countries. 10 years later, however, an architect for the town of Spijkenisse claimed them for the Netherlands by building all seven of them on a single waterway.

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4 years ago

(Feb 23, 2021 07:54)

Russians playing chess in a park in Moscow, 1950s.

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4 years ago

(Feb 23, 2021 07:44)

TIL in 1978, two punk bands, "the cramps" and "the mutants", were booked to play a live show at a mental institution in Napa, California. At onother point, the mutants played at a school for the deaf, with the kids holding balloons in their hand in order to "feel the music"

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4 years ago

(Feb 23, 2021 11:57)

This is a Scottish Wildcat, the rarest species of wildcat in the world. IT'S A REAL LIFE, SCOTTISH ANGRY CAT🤣

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4 years ago

(Feb 23, 2021 03:45)

TIL In 1972, eight people at a dinner party snorted lines of powdered LSD thinking it was cocaine. After 10 minutes, five of them were comatose, but all recovered after 12 hours with no ill effects.

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4 years ago

(Feb 23, 2021 06:52)

This gorilla, Koko, who knows sign language, with more sense and care for this world than most humans.

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4 years ago

(Feb 23, 2021 06:55)

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4 years ago

(Feb 23, 2021 10:12)

TIL - Wolverines are real animals and they are weasels, not canines. They are the largest land-dwelling species of the family Mustelidae. The Marvel character Logan Howlett was given this name because if his "short stature, keen animal senses, and ferocity".

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4 years ago

(Feb 23, 2021 03:35)

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